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A subscriber who recently ordered this magazine for three 

 years in advance stipulated that if we should suspend publica- 

 tion during this period, we would return the amount of his un- 

 expired subscription. In case any other reader has doubts of 

 our stability, we may say that the number of subscriptions for 

 the volume just beginning is so large that we have had to in- 

 crease the number of copies printed, that Aolume 26 is already 

 so rare that we cannot supply it except in complete sets and 

 that there are only about twenty-five such sets still on hand. 

 The magazine has not even considered the idea of suspending! 



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One who has taken this magazine for a number of years 

 writes, "I am not much of a botanist but find much in the 

 magazine that is interesting if not exactly useful." This is the 

 right spirit. Our correspondent realizes that one ought to know 

 something about the plants whether the informatitui can be 

 turned into casli or nc^t. l^rospective subscribers sometimes 

 write us that the magazine is too difficult for beginners, over- 

 looking the fact that l)eginners do not long remain such and 

 soon demand more advanced matter. Resides, who wants to 

 take a publication that contains information with which one is 

 alreadv familiar? One needs a few articles somewhat beyond 

 his reach to keep him up to the mark and furnish new fciod 

 for thought. When a publication contains nothing that one 

 does not already know, it is time to remove it from his list. 



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For some time our National Government has been setting 

 aside certain tracts of land valued for their scenic beauty for 



